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Popcorn Shorts- How To Be A Lie Detector
OK, you know the joke… “How can you tell when a politician’s lying? His lips are moving!” While that will guarantee success in 99% of politicians, there are other people in our lives, and they might lie as well. How … Continue reading
Popcorn Shorts- How Many People Have Died In Bush’s Wars?
It’s been going on for years now, and the end isn’t in sight. But how many people have actually died in Afghanistan and Iraq? Not just American soldiers, but soldiers from other countries, contractors, journalists, or civilians? Here’s a site … Continue reading
News To Make You Furious- Income Inequality… It’s not just for Third World countries anymore!
You’ve heard about the staggering differences in income between the upper echelons of our society and the rest of us. In fact, if you are one of the rest of us, you’re probably feeling a little bit of the squeeze … Continue reading
Ban the Bag
Aside from being wasteful (do you really need a plastic bag for your box of Altoids?) those annoying plastic grocery store bags fill our landfills or escape into the environment to clog machinery, litter the landscape, and kill wildlife. California … Continue reading
Orwell Called…
I’m Tom Dwyer, George Orwell wants his plot from nineteen eighty four back. Big Brother, Newspeak and Endless War aren’t fiction any more. Cheney said the War on Terror “may NEVER end, at least, not in our lifetime.” Obama’s first … Continue reading
Eisenhower’s Warning
I’m Tom Dwyer, Eisenhower gave us this prophetic warning; “…we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We … Continue reading
American Decline
Will we passively watch our corporate controlled congress continue to scrap our society to fund an insane and unsustainable foreign policy? We will sacrifice the weakest among us, let our infrastructure rot and borrow more money to assert our military … Continue reading
The Patriot Act
I’m Tom Dwyer Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin said it and Russ Feingold fought for it….. Staunch defender of the rule of law, the only … Continue reading
Support the State Bank of Oregon
A State Bank of Oregon, modeled on the State Bank of North Dakota, will be under consideration by the legislature this year. A State Bank would take the state’s money (around $60 billion) and return the interest to the Oregon … Continue reading
Websurfing With Tom- Our picks of the web
Just like everyone else in the world, we at Tom Dwyer Automotive spend way too much time surfing the Internet. To turn what could be wasted time into productive effort, we decided to start this new section of the newsletter … Continue reading